Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in the ICU: a systematic review.

Sinéad Lydon; Michael Power; Jennifer McSharry; Molly Byrne; Caoimhe Madden; Janet Elaine Squires; Paul O’Connor

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Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in the ICU: a systematic review.

November 29, 2017

Lydon S, Power M, McSharry J, et al. Crit Care Med. 2017;45(11).

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This systematic review examined efforts to improve hand hygiene in critical care settings. Although many interventions were effective, poor methodological rigor and bundled interventions limited identification of best practices. A previous PSNet perspective discussed approaches to measuring and improving hand hygiene, including human factors engineering.

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